Presentation about Ruby Australia given at rorosyd in February 2012.

1. Ruby Australia
Keith Pitty
@keithpitty

2. Why?

3. Easier Railscamps
• To make it easier to organise Railscamps
• common accounts for banking, Paypal,
Eventbrite etc.
• knowledge transfer
• asset transfer

4. Ruby Conference
• To facilitate the holding of an inaugural
Ruby conference in Australia
• Reach out to a different audience
• those seeking a conference format
• those new to Ruby
• Attract awesome speakers

5. From the constitution
The founding purpose of Ruby Australia
is to further the use and adoption of the
Ruby programming language in Australia,
and to support and encourage a vibrant
community around the language and
related technologies.

6. Who?

7. Initially
• Many involved since initial meeting at RC9
• Particular thanks to Pat Allan & Richie
Khoo
• did “the admin hard yards” - e.g. created
constitution, registered association etc.

8. Committee
• Keith Pitty (President)
• Nigel Rausch (Vice-President)
• Sebastian von Conrad (Treasurer)
• Richie Khoo (Secretary)
• Dan Draper
• Ben Schwarz

9. What?

10. Formalities
• Committee meets every two months
• General meeting at every Railscamp
• We aim to share the roles (e.g. half the
committee will step down at RC11)

11. ruby.org.au
• Ben Schwarz et al
• Work about to start on logo
• Will facilitate new members joining
• Aiming for initial site in March
• Twitter: @rubyaustralia

12. Next Railscamps
• RC11
• Sunshine Coast, June
• Nigel Rausch et al
• RC12
• Tasmania, November
• watch this space

13. Ruby AU Conference
• Early 2013
• In principle agreement to partner with
YOW!
• Will probably be in Melbourne
• Early stages of committee being formed

14. Finally
• It’s up to the Australian Ruby community to
decide what direction Ruby Australia takes

15. Questions?